Tag: Dan Forest

New Lt. Gov. offers slick, contradictory and at times bizarre talk at conservative luncheon

March 6, 2013 at 3:39 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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Dan ForestNorth Carolina’s new Lt. Governor, Dan Forest, held forth in a rambling talk at a John Locke Foundation “Shaftsbury Society luncheon” earlier this week and in watching the 41 minute video one gets a real taste of the strange brew of ill-conceived and contradictory policy positions that now dominates on the modern American-Fox News-Tea Partying right.

As is often the case with many of his ideological allies, much of Forest’s talk is friendly and non-threatening. Whether he is lamenting the lousy Internet service he inherited in the Lt. Governor’s mansion or preaching that North Carolina ought to strive to be number one in the nation in K-12 education, Forest gives voice to many noncontroversial positions.

But, of course, as has been well-documented previously, Dan Forest is not just a friendly suburban architect or the semi-polished son of a former congresswoman.  Read More…

More on Dan Forest’s wacky connections

November 29, 2012 at 12:39 pmCategory:Uncategorized

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As reported in yesterday’s Weekly Briefing, North Carolina’s new Lt. Governor-elect, Dan “the Sears catalog is porn” Forest has a bit of a wacky side. A nonprofit that he helps run in tandem with a Raleigh ad agency owner named Christopher Stone purports to connect retailers to “faith driven consumers” — which in Forest’s world, means fundamentalist conservative Christians.

In the group’s new “Faith-friendly Christmas Guide” it informs readers that the giant retailer Sears gets very low marks because, among other things, its catalog “features women in lingerie.” Conveniently, the Guide even then provides a link to the online version of the lingerie catalog so that readers can be sure of what it is they’re crusading against.

As we also noted, the nonprofit is run out of the same office as Stone’s ad agency Read More…

NC’s new Lt. Gov. and his wacky crusades

November 28, 2012 at 9:28 amCategory:Uncategorized

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This morning’s edition of the Weekly Briefing shines a little more light on a subject that a handful of obervers have highlighted in recent months — namely, the rather bizarre passions and crusades of North Carolina’s Lt. Governor-elect, Dan Forest.

For instance, Forest serves as the co-director of a nonprofit that purports to rate giant corporate retailers on their “pornography” policies. In the group’s new “Faith-friendly Christmas Guide” it informs readers that the giant retailer Sears gets very low marks in this category because, among other things, its catalog “features women in lingerie.” Conveniently, the Guide even then provides a link to the online version of the lingerie catalog so that readers can be sure of what it is they’re crusading against!

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